While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system — code-named Longhorn — into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system ...

What operating system do you use? For some, that question may as well be posed in Latin or Sanskrit. For others, it’s an invitation to have a heated debate about the benefits of GUI vs. command line, ...

To solve Windows 10 system crashes, you need to understand what causes the dreaded Blue Screen of Death in Windows 10. Windows 10 operates in both Kernel Mode and User Mode. The idea is simple; run ...

Over the decades, Apple has managed several successful processor and operating system migrations with a combination of emulation and virtualization. Emulation lets a computer run code intended for a ...